Designed by Freepik When Union Minister, Jitendra Singh sat down with IIT Bombay’s BharatGen team, the unveiling of India’s first sovereign multilingual, multimodal LLM, drove home the message: India intends to secure control of its digital foundations. The Minister underscored that the country’s AI capabilities must be built locally, governed locally, and rooted in India’s own languages and data. The BharatGen team briefed the minister on how the model is being built to reflect India’s linguistic and cultural complexity, supporting more than 22 Indian languages and integrating text, speech and document-vision capabilities. That design choice ensures that national AI systems…
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